sbank Tutorial

There's now
a tutorial
for sbank; this is
work-in-progress, but I'd be happy about any suggestions on how to
expand it and what to focus on.

New IRClogs features

Also, I've been brushing up
my IRClogs webapp
recently; it now features:

Showing a configurable amount of context around search hits,
so you can make more sense of search results without having to
go back to the page for that day.

Matching phrases in the search results are now
highlighted.

Each search result entry now links directly to the
corresponding day-page entry.

See this
link for an example that shows off the features listed above. On
the non-user-visible side, there's now support for gzipped logs,
which saves a considerable amount of space, just gzip
-9 the older log files — this should also work while
the IRClogs server is running.

Ruby babbling

I'm using feed2imap to
get all those RSS and Atom feeds into
my beloved MUA. As I run spam
filtering, and split incoming email
into Maildir
folders on a small server at home (in a setup
involving SpamAssassin,
Postfix
and scmail) and
serve those folders over IMAP
(using Dovecot), I've decided
to add Maildir support to feed2imap, so I no longer have to place my
IMAP password in feed2imap's plain-text configuration file.

As feed2imap is implemented
in Ruby, this has
provided me the opportunity to get my feet wet (or rather moist) in
this language. Having a good grip on Python and Scheme, my one-word
summary so far would be: Unsurprising!.

If you're interested in the patch, have a watch
on the bug report
— I'll attach it there once it's in a reasonable shape.